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Jul 28 2010

Process Measures and Quality Improvement

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A study in JAMA suggests that process-of-care quality measures, which are frequently used for bonus or penalty reimbursement programs, may have little real relationship to ultimate health outcomes.

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Jul 28 2010

New York Times

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On the airways, obesity public service announcements are lining up while a “Truth” campaign about tobacco languishes for lack of money.

Jul 28 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Dialysis services for nearly 330,000 Medicare patients with end stage renal disease will be paid under a new system that creates a bundled, case-adjusted rate starting Jan. 1

Jul 28 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The decision to admit as inpatient is a complex medical judgment that can only be made after a physician has taken into consideration a number of clinical and safety factors

Jul 28 2010

Bloomberg

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UnitedHealth Group Inc. is nearing an agreement to buy Executive Health Resources Inc., a medical services firm backed by Abry Partners LLC, for about $1.5 billion

Jul 28 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Aetna Inc. is contracting out long-term administration of its pharmacy-benefit business to CVS Caremark Corp., in a 12-year agreement that could offer prescription-drug discounts to some 10 million members

Jul 28 2010

Fiscal Times

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Among the most important questions involving the health care overhaul is how seniors will be affected. Here are two of the biggest pocketbook issues

Jul 28 2010

Washington Post

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New census data released Tuesday confirm a huge spread in the rate of uninsured from state to state and the big difference in impact that can be expected as a result of the health-care overhaul

Jul 28 2010

LA Times

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Spurred in part by the law, many independent providers across the country are racing to mold themselves into the kind of coordinated teams held up as models for improving care.

Jul 27 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Direct-to-consumer genetic tests may be getting ahead of the current medical science and could ironically pose health risks , according to a new GAO study and testimony presented late last week before a House panel

Jul 27 2010

Times

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Of all the aspects of the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that critics fiercely object to, few generate more ire than the mandates.

Jul 27 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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New CMS Administrator Donald Berwick, MD, has not yet been on the job a month, and he’s already finding himself in the middle of one of those reimbursement tugs-of-war that seem to define modern healthcare.

Jul 27 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The number of physicians in California has been increasing faster than the state’s population, but not as fast as the state needs, especially as both state and federal legislation strive to increase the number of people who receive healthcare services.

Jul 27 2010

Workers’ Comp Medical Cost Increases

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Workers' compensation health cost trends may provide some insight into underlying medical cost issues across the system and vice versa. An NCCI report looks at factors driving trends in medical…

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